Character Counts 
Subtitle: The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: March 25, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780071391153
First sentence: I GAVE THE FIRST of my speeches to our crew when we reached our $3 billion milestone, on September 19, 1980.
Description: "Vanguard has grown to become the world's largest no-load mutual fund organization and by far the world's lowest-cost provider of financial services to independent investors. But far more than its unprecedented size and remarkable rate of growth, it is Vanguard's concern for the rights of the independent investor that mark it as the most truly progressive company in the mutual fund industry." "And its founder, John Bogle, is that industry's greatest visionary.".

"Character Counts presents Bogle at his most straightforward and unvarnished, through the words and ideas of forty-two actual speeches - complete with newly written commentary - that he has given to Vanguard crew members since Vanguard's founding in 1974."--BOOK JACKET.